Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an
Australian poet, memoirist, critic,
novelist
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and editor. For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of ''
Australian Book Review''.
Career
Peter Rose was born in
Wangaratta
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on 8 June 1955, and grew up there. Rose belongs to a famous
Collingwood Football Club family. His father,
Bob
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, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother,
Robert
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(1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for
Victoria
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. Rose was educated at
Haileybury, Melbourne
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and
Monash University
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.
Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at
Oxford University Press
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, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the ''
Australian Book Review''. He has also edited two poetry anthologies.
In 2001, Rose published ''Rose Boys'', a family memoir which won the
National Biography Award
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in 2003. ''Rose Boys'' was reissued as a
Text Classic in 2013.
In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
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. He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive selection of his poetry appears in the Australian Poetry Library.
Rose's poetry has won several awards. The collection ''Crimson Crop'', published in 2012, won a
Queensland Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the 2013
Prime Minister's Literary Award.
Personal life
He has acknowledged his homosexuality, and his work has appeared in the anthology ''Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets''.
Library Thing, ''Out of the box : contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets''
Retrieved 22 June 2013
He lives in Melbourne.
Bibliography
Poetry
Collections
*
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* ''Donatello in Wangaratta'', Hale & Iremonger, 1998
* ''Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems'', Salt Publications, 2005
* ''Crimson Crop'', UWA Publishing, 2012
* ''The Subject of Feeling'', UWA Publishing, 2015
List of poems
Memoir
* ''Rose Boys'', Allen & Unwin, 2001
* ''Rose Boys'', Text Classics, 2013
Fiction
* ''A Case of Knives'', Allen & Unwin, 2005
* ''Roddy Parr'', Fourth Estate, 2010, ISN 9780732290276
Anthology
* ''The Best Australian Poems 2007'', Black Inc., 2007
* ''The Best Australian Poems 2008'', Black Inc., 2008
Book and other reviews
References
External links
Collingwood Football Club
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Robert Rose Foundation
Australian Poetry Library
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Living people
1955 births
Australian Book Review people
Australian editors
Australian male novelists
Australian male poets
Australian memoirists
Gay poets
Gay novelists
Australian LGBT novelists
Australian LGBT poets
Meanjin people